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Voter Registration and Election Laws in the United States, 1972-1992 (ICPSR 1102)

Principal Investigator(s):Mitchell, Glenn E. II, University of Houston; Wlezien, Christopher, University of Houston

Summary:

The data set contains information about voter registration
and election laws in the United states and Washington, D.C. for
even-numbered years between 1972 and 1992. Information about elections
themselves also is included in the data set. The data collection was
conducted by Glenn Mitchell II and Christopher Wlezien.

Access Notes

These data are flagged as replication datasets
and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material.
Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

These data are freely available.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Mitchell, Glenn E. II, and Christopher Wlezien. Voter Registration and Election Laws in the United States, 1972-1992. ICPSR01102-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1996-01-03. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01102.v1

Scope of Study

The data for voter registration and election laws are
drawn from state statute and relevant state and federal court
decisions. The technical statutory references corresponding to the data
are not part of the data set itself, but are available from the
authors. The principals do not warrant that the data are definitive,
particularly as pertains to voter registration, for three reasons.
First, state statute is not always unambiguous, so that in certain
instances judgments based on other sources were required. Second,
judicial decisions can affect how registration and election laws are
implemented, and it is not clear that each relevant judicial decision
has been identified. Third, apart from state statute and judicial
decisions, actual administrative practice can vary from state to state
and also within states--such variation in administrative practice is
not reflected in the data. Since the principals intend to update the
data set in the future, please forward any corrections, suggestions, or
queries directly to either of them. These data are part of ICPSR's
Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived
from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this
material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further
information is desired.